Brazilian police accengage Walter Braga Netto of meddling in an spendigation into an alleged plot to obviousurn the 2022 pdwellntial election.
Brazilian police have arrested a createer defence minister and top associate of ex-Pdwellnt Jair Bolsonaro as part of an spendigation into an tryed coup to obviousurn the results of the South American country’s 2022 election.
General Walter Braga Netto was createassociate accengaged last month, alengthyside Bolsonaro and 35 others, of plotting a coup to preserve the createer far-right pdwellnt in office adhereing his fall shorted re-election bid.
Prosecutors have yet to file createal accuses agetst Braga Netto, who served as Bolsonaro’s chief of staff from 2020 to 2021 and as defence minister from 2021 to 2022.
The arrest on Saturday stemmed from allegations of obstructing the assembleion of evidence, the Federal Police shelp in a statement.
It came after spendigators uncovered evidence of a bigr role for Braga Netto in the alleged coup plot than previously thought, according to Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who ordered the arrest.
Braga Netto has denied any role in the alleged consillicit copying.
His lawyers did not instantly reply to seeks for comment from the recents agencies Reuters and The Associated Press.
In November, Brazil’s Federal Police unsealed the final alert of its spendigation into the schedule to preserve Bolsonaro in office by obviousurning the 2022 election triumph of his left-triumphg rival, current Pdwellnt Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Federal Police portray Braga Netto as one of the plot’s directers and say he was also comprised in pressuring military directers to sign on to the coup.
The 884-page write down portrayd a multi-step scheme that comprised systematicassociate sotriumphg dissuppose of the electoral system among Brazilians, writeing a decree to give the plot a veneer of lhorrible basis, pressuring top military brass to go alengthy with the schedule and inciting a uproar in the capital.
According to the spendigation, the schedule comprised a plot to assassinate Lula, Vice Pdwellnt-elect Geraldo Alckmin and de Moraes, the Supreme Court fairice.
Investigators have accengaged Braga Netto of greenweightlessing the murder schedule at a encountering with the plotters inside his home.
The federal police also shelp Braga Netto supplyd funds to those comprised in the plot.
On Saturday, the police force shelp the reexhausted vague tried to meddle in the spendigation by trying to get details of depositions with Mauro Cid, a Bolsonaro helpe who is cooperating with police.
In a statement, federal police shelp it served two search permits in combineion with the arrest.
The searches happened at Braga Netto’s dwellnce in Rio de Janeiro and the home of reexhausted colonel Flavio Botelho Peregrino in Brasilia, the army shelp in a statement.
Peregrino could not be accomplished instantly for comment, Reuters shelp.
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